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Courtney Ferguson
Mercury copy chief and appreciator of the most sophisticated form of comedy: PUNS!
Posted inMovies & TV
We Have Questions for Guy Maddin!
But Not Any Answers about The Saddest Music in the World
But not any answers about The Saddest Music in the World.
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Talking Time Travel and Head Colds with Daniel Clowes
Patience is a shadowy, lysergic trip down nostalgia lane. Fantagraphics Daniel Clowes and I both have terrible head colds. I ask him a question over the phone and he breaks out into a cough. “Three coughs means, ‘yes,’” he manages to get out. I’d been a tiny bit apprehensive about talking to the creator of […]
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Tonight! Sleaze! Gore! Demons and Rats Galore!
Italians get a lot of praise for their keen eye in regard to the finer things in life—but what about their even better panache for bad taste? The horror films that came out of Italy in the latter half of the 20th century were rife with stylized gore and sordid murders, making them tasty amalgamations […]
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Time Traveling with Daniel Clowes’ Patience
Talking about His New Graphic Novel
Talking about his new graphic novel and killing baby Hitler.
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Italians Do It Better—with a Demons and Rats Double Feature!
Sleaze! Gore! Demons and Rats Galore!
Sleaze, gore, and rats galore with an ’80s grindhouse double feature.
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Watertrough Saloon: Dusting off a Time Capsule
Edging Out of the 1970s at the SE Hawthorne Dive
Edging out of the 1970s at the SE Hawthorne dive.
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Surprise! Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Isn’t a Shambling Mess!
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES Ah! Classic literature! Fine cinema! Heading into Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, there are only two things you’re dying to see: Mr. Darcy and zombies. The more the better (especially of the Darcy variety). Well, good news for all you empire waistoids—this adaption of Seth Grahame-Smith’s 2009 parody novel of […]
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The Pride (and Prejudice and Zombies) of Jane Austen
It’s Not the Shambling Mess You Might Have Expected!
It’s not the shambling mess you might’ve expected!
Posted inComedy
Snerfling with Comic Genius Maria Bamford
The Wonderful Weirdo Talks Pugs and TV Shows
The wonderful weirdo talks pugs and new TV shows.
Posted inFitness
The Purrrfection of Cat Yoga
(Insert Joke Here About Downward Dog)
(Insert joke here about downward dog.)
Posted inFitness
Exercise Is Not Going to Fix Your Body
But Biomechanist Katy Bowman Says Movement Might
But biomechanist Katy Bowman says movement might.